Peter Temple

Jack Irish

1 - Bad Debts (Nov-2005)
2 - Black Tide (Nov-2005)
3 - Dead Point (Jan-2014)
4 - White Dog (Aug-2008)

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  Identity Theory
  

  • Oct-2004
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  John Anselm is a former Beirut hostage, a foreign correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out-case, he lives in his family’s ancestral house in Germany, working for a semi-legal and near-broke surveillance firm and wrestling with his ow...

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  The Broken Shore
  

  • Aug-2005
  • / Thriller
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  Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is--one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of l...

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  Bad Debts
  

  • Nov-2005
  • / Suspense
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  Jack Irish - 1
  

  Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created. When Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed ex-client he’s too deep in misery over Fitz...

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  Black Tide
  

  • Nov-2005
  • / Suspense
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  Jack Irish - 2
  

  Black Tide is the second of Peter Temple’s Jack Irish thrillers and was first published in 1999. Jack Irish -- lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people -- is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agr...

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  The Peter Temple Omnibus
  

  • Jan-2008
  • / Mystery
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  Truth
  

  • Apr-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  Inspector Stephen Villani, head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia, has a full agenda: a murdered woman in a penthouse apartment, three men butchered in a sadistic rampage, a tattoofaced drug dealer corrupting his rebellious daughter, a crumbling ma...

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  White Dog
  

  • Aug-2008
  • / Suspense
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  Jack Irish - 4
  

  This is the fourth Jack Irish thriller, and the third one in the series to win a Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction. Jack Irish-gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found-has a new job, hunting for evidence that might ...

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  Ithaca in My Mind
  

  • May-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  On a lazy summer morning, ageing author Vincent Duncan takes an unsettling phone call from his literary agent. Peter Temple indulges his humorous side in this scathingly brilliant portrayal of a writer past his peak....

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  An Iron Rose
  

  • Jun-2013
  • / Suspense
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  The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award. Introduction by Les Carlyon. When Mac Faraday’s best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced, and he’s a man who knows not to accept th...

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  Dead Point
  

  • Jan-2014
  • / Suspense
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  Jack Irish - 3
  

  Guy Pearce returns to the screen in early 2014 as Jack Irish in a new feature based on Dead Point. Winner, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel, 2000 It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood i...

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  Shooting Star
  

  • Feb-2014
  • / Suspense
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  Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.

  The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned.

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  In the Evil Day
  

  • Dec-2015
  • / Psychological Suspense
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  John Anselm's a former Beirut hostage; a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he's working for a semi-legal Hamburg surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past. Then into his life comes Con Niemand, ex-...

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  The Red Hand
  

  • Oct-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  ‘One of the world’s finest crime writers.’ The Times

  ‘He was to terse blokes with hard jobs and wounded souls what Proust was to memory. He made every sentence count and shot the stragglers.’ Shane Maloney

  Peter Temple did...

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